South
Australian
unions
will
today
hand out
tens of
thousands
of
flyers
at
Adelaide
Oval to
spread
the word
about
recent
cuts to
Sunday
and
public
holiday
penalty
rates.

Sate
Secretary,
Joe
Szakacs
says
hundreds
of
volunteers
will be
at the
Oval to
remind
football
fans
that the
Turnbull
Government
and key
Federal
crossbenchers
support
these
cuts to
peoples'
take
home
pay.

"We want
people
to
remember
when
they
vote in
the next
Federal
election
that
Malcolm
Turnbull
and his
government
did
nothing
to stop
these
cuts."

"Fifty
thousand
people
fit into
this
stadium
- and
fourteen
times
more
people
have
been hit
by these
penalty
rates
cuts."

More
than
700,000
people
who work
in
hospitality,
fast
food,
retail
and
pharmacy
on
Sundays
and
public
holidays
receiving
penalty
rates
had
their
pay cut
on July
21st.

"There
are
footy
fans who
can't be
here
today
because
they are
working
and it
is not
just
football
they
miss out
on, but
all
kinds of
other
family
and
social
events.
They
deserve
to be
compensated
for
working
weekends
and
public
holidays."

Mr
Szakacs
says the
cuts
handed
down by
the Fair
Work
Commission
earlier
this
year
show
that the
system
is
broken
if the
body
tasked
with
ensuring
fairness
in our
industrial
system
will
slash
the pay
of some
of
Australia's
lowest
paid
workers.

"The
Commission
handed
down the
biggest
wage cut
Australia
has
every
seen -
of about
$2,400
each
year."

"Inequality
is at a
70 year
high and
a whole
generation
of
Australians
don't
know
what it
is like
to have
a paid
sick day
or a
paid
holiday."

"Working
people
just
want
fairness
and all
they
have got
is a
Federal
Liberal
Government
that
backs
big
business
and
company
profit."

"At a
time
when the
Reserve
Bank
Governor
is
arguing
that
people
should
be paid
more,
not
less,
unions
are
ramping
up their
fight to
protect
and
increase
workers'
wages."